LEADING OFF: The Denver Police Department must prove that a series of red light cameras across the city benefit the public safety and not just the department’s coffers, reports The Post’s Jeremy Meyer. This time it’s the city auditor and some city councilpersons targeting the controversial program. A few months ago, it was two news stations. Meyer reports that four particular intersections have been an especially tough sell to the public, more than quintupling revenue since they started counting stopping too far past the intersection as running a red.

STRIKE THREE: A Texas crime novelist had some trouble with with her real-life murder-for-hire plot — mainly that she allegedly paid an undercover cop to kill her soon-to-be ex-husband, The Eagle reports. Nancy Mancuso Gelber, 53, has publicly bemoaned the pending divorce and has published a thriller about an escaped inmate who “uses a team of prostitutes to pull off several brazen bank robberies,” The Huffington Post reports.